17 are dead and at least 15 others wounded at a Florida high school after a former student returned to campus with an assault rifle on Wednesday. This is the 18th school shooting in the first 45 days of 2018. Wednesday’s school shooting in Broward County’s Parkland is the 10th deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. So far. The Republican congress continues working to further weaken America’s gun laws.
Wednesday’s alleged high school shooter, a former JROTC member who was on the school rifle team, showed obvious signs of instability while he was still a student, according to former classmates: “All he would talk about is guns, knives and hunting.” “I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat.”
More:
“Florida School Shooting: ‘No Words’ as 17 Die in a Barrage of Bullets,” Audra D.S. Burch and Patricia Mazzei, New York Times
“17 People Died In The Parkland Shooting. Here Are Their Names,” Laurel Wamsley, NPR
“Trump, Who Made It Easier for Mentally Ill People to Buy Guns, Blames Mental Health Issues for Florida Shooting,” Inae Oh, Mother Jones
“Trump Calls For Mental Health Action After Shooting; His Budget Would Cut Programs,” Vanessa Romo, NPR
“President Trump’s Victim-Blaming Response to the Mass Shooting in Florida,” Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker
“White House refuses to release photo of Trump gun law repeal,” BBC News
“American Carnage,” Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
“Student who survived Florida shooting pleads with Trump and Congress: ‘Please, take action,’” Kristine Phillips, Washington Post
“Teacher who survived school shooting breaks down in tears calling for gun control,” Rebecca Savransky, The Hill
“School safety money would be slashed in Trump budget,” Kimberly Hefling, Politico
“Report: Florida Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Passed Background Check for AR-15,” Daily Beast
“Most Americans can buy an AR-15 rifle before they can buy beer,” Lois Beckett, The Guardian
“The AR-15: ‘America’s rifle’ or illegitimate killing machine?” Marc Fisher, Washington Post
“All the things Fox News blamed the Parkland shooting on other than the gun,” Adam Epstein, Quartz
“Laws we used to have on the books could have prevented the Florida school shooting,” Robert J. Spitzer, Washington Post
“It’s time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say,” Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post
“Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant,” Michael Biesecker and Collin Binkley, Associated Press
“After Sandy Hook we said never again. And then we let 1,607 mass shootings happen.” German Lopez, Ryan Mark and Soo Oh, Vox
“After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings,” Jugal K. Patel, New York Times
“The normalization of America’s school shootings, in one chart,” Ana Campoy, Quartz
“After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shot in Over 200 School Shootings,” Jugal K. Patel, New York Times
“This is America: 9 out of 10 public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students,” Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox
“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens,” The Onion
“Before FL Shooting, NRA Posted Valentine Featuring Guns And Bullets,” Cristina Cabrera, TPM Livewire
“The NRA Is a Terrorist Organization,” Michael Harriot, The Root
“The gun lobby: See how much your representative gets,” Tyler Fisher, Sarah Frostenson, and Lily Mihalik, Politico
“The NRA’s step-by-step playbook for responding to a mass shooting,” Heather Timmons, Quartz
Related:
“Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved,” Saul Cornell, The Conversation
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